| ADAMWEST | The original Batman who passed away (4,4) |
| CESAR | Romero who played the Joker on the original "Batman" series |
| THEJOKER | Adversary of Batman who appeared in the first Batman comic in 1940 (3,5) |
| BANE | Foe of Batman who wears a face mask |
| MORRISON | Toni ___ Nobel laureate behind works like The Bluest Eye and Home who passed away in 2019 |
| MEATLOAF | Rock legend who passed away in 2022 |
| LANSBURY | Angela who passed away at age 96 on Tuesday |
| VIVIENNE | Outlandish British fashion designer who passed away last year, _ Westwood (8) |
| HOULLIER | Gerald _, late footballer and former manager of Liverpool FC who passed away in December (8) |
| ADAM | TV's original Batman (---- West) |
| WEST | Adam _; original Batman actor (4) |
| URBANE | Original Batman supervillain is elegant and sophisticated (6) |
| HERBIE | Hancock who was one of the five performers at the Grammys last night who honored the late Quincy Jones, who passed away in November |
| CREWS | Terry who said this week that if he could be any athlete of the past, he'd be NFL great (and actor) Jim Brown, who passed away last month at the age of 87 |
| ROSSPEROT | This billionaire, who passed away July 9, got 19 percent of the national vote in the 1992 election |
| PEI | I.M. ___ Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the Louvre in Paris who passed away at the age of 102 in 2019 |
| DORIS | ___ Day Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and actress from The Man Who Knew Too Much who passed away in 2019 |
| BEST | "The ___" (1989 hit for Tina Turner, who passed away in Switzerland on Wednesday at the age of 83) |
| ROSS | "Glengarry Glen ___" (classic 1992 movie starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and the great Alan Arkin, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 89) |
| LADY | ___ Gaga (she recorded the Grammy-winning 2014 and 2021 albums "Cheek to Cheek" and "Love for Sale" with the great Tony Bennett, who passed away at age 96 on Friday) |
